Re: completing-read depricated initial-input

[Robert Pluim]

>>>>> On Tue, 21 Jun 2022 09:56:59 +0200 (CEST), carlmarcos--- via Users list 
>>>>> for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> said:

    >> Have been reading the docstring of `completing-read`.

    >> (completing-read PROMPT COLLECTION &optional PREDICATE REQUIRE-MATCH
    >> INITIAL-INPUT HIST DEF INHERIT-INPUT-METHOD)

    >> INITIAL-INPUT states that this feature is deprecated - it is best to 
pass nil
    >> for INITIAL-INPUT and supply the default value DEF instead.  

    >> When do you plan to remove the `INITIAL-INPUT` argument from 
`completing-read`?

No such plan exists. At best Emacs could start ignoring that arg, but
we canʼt just change the signature of such a public function.

Robert
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